Apparatus for cleaning the interiors of casks or like receptacles.



PATENTED DEC. 15, 1903.

L, BROUX AR. GREGOIRB. APPARATUS FOR CLEANING THE INTERIORS 0F GASKS'OR LIKE REGEPTAGLES. I

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UNITED STATES Patented :December 15, I903.

PATENT OFFICE.

LOUIS BROUX AND RENE GBEGOIRE, OF DOUAI, FRANCE.

APPARATUS FOR CLEANING TH E INTERIORS OF CASKS OR LIKE RECEPTACLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 746,785, dated December 15, 1903. Application filed February 24, 1903. Serial No. 144,805. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, LOUIS BROUX and RENE GREcoIRn, .citizens of the Republic of France, residing at Douai, Nord, France, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin or Relating to Apparatus for Cleaning the Interiors of Oasks or Like Receptacles, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to an apparatus for cleaning the interiors of casks and like receptacles.

The apparatus comprises a brush or the like I mounted on a rod capable of being oscillated in all directions in the interior of the cask, a point of support being arranged in the middle of the cask, the movements of the brush being efiected by a lever worked from the outside.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a longitudinal section of a cask in which our apparatus is arranged, and Fig. 2 is a modification 0f the apparatus shown in Fig. l.

The apparatus, as shown in Fig. 1, is composed of a central rod or support a, which is introduced into the bu ng-hole of the cask and fixed in position by means of a clamp 6, provided with a screw o, traversing an angle-arm f, which is integral with the central rod a, this angle-arm on the outside of the cask forming a counterpart of another arm g, also integral with the central rod on and constituting the other clamp member resting against the inside of the cask.

The central rod a carries at its lower part a swivel loop or ring 72., capable of turning in the former and of oscillating relatively to'this rod, owing to it being fitted loosely in the rod to which it is attached. A spring 'r may, if desired, be provided on the rod a above the ring h in order to facilitate the movements of the latter and to prevent it becoming jammed.

A bar 2', forming the handle of a brush it at its outer end, passes through the ring it, the brush being attached to the bar by means of a collar or clip j, so that it can be easily detached and replaced by another.

The end of a lever Z, passing through the bung-hole and provided with a handle m, is

hinged at 0 to the handle 1' near the brush..

This lever passes through a collar 0, which is secured to the outer arm f of the central rod a by means of a pin d, serving at the same time as a key for turning the clamping-screw v. The collar 0 thus arranged protects'the edge of the bung-hole against the shocks it would undergo in consequence of the movements of the operating-lever Z.

In most cases the bung-holes being of a determined diameter, the collar 0 can be integral with the central rod or, as shown in Fig. 2, and fit directly in the said hole instead of and in the place of the ordinary bung. The construction in such cases is more simple and does not require a set-screw 'v to fix the device in place.

After having successively introduced the brush is of the bar 1 and the lever Z into the cask, taking care to cause the end of the bar 71 to pass through the ring h, and after having secured the central red at in position the operator presses on the lever in such a man her that the brush will pass over the whole the central rod round by givinga lateral semicircular movement he cleanses the second half of the cask from the center to the other head. He then withdraws the apparatus from the cask in the opposite order to thatadopted for introducing it, and he has only to brush the inner part of the bung-hole with an ordinary bent brush and to rinse.

In order to adapt this apparatus to casks of different dimensions, the central rod a and the brush-handle 11 can be telescopic or divided into two parts, sliding one on the other in such a manner that the ring h can he placed in the center of the cask to be cleaned and that the handle iof the brush is can be of the required length.

,lever extending through the collar and hinged to the brush-handle.

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2. Apparatus for cleaning the interiors of casks and like receptacles, comprising a collar adapted to enter the bung-hole of the cask, an arm depending from said collar, a swivelloop on the end of said arm, a spring connection between the depending arm and swivelloop, a brush-handle passing through said loop and an operating lever extending through the collar and hinged to the brushhandle.

3. Apparatus for cleaning the interiors of casks and like receptacles, comprising a collar adapted to enter the bu ng-hole of the cask, an extensible arm depending from said collar, a swivel-loop on the end of said arm, a brush-handle passing through said loop and an operating-lever extending through the collar and hinged to the handle near the brush end thereof.

and hinged to the handle near the brush end thereof.

In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

LOUIS BROUX. RENE GREGOIRE.

Witnesses:

ACHILLE MARILLIER, JEAN RoBELET. 

